What Edu Conferences Should Be On Your Agenda This Year?

Education conferences bring teachers, administrators, vendors, and investors together over innovative, controversial, and challenging questions and opportunities. The Getting Smart team travels to countless conferences and events each year to gather new insight into the education market. Here’s a few on our radar:

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BETT, hosted in London each year, will run January 30 – February 2, 2013.

SXSWedu is held in Austin,Texas each year. This year, the event will run from March 4-7, 2013. This is the best conference for new education technology and startups.

Education Innovation Summit, hosted by Arizona State University and GSV, will be at the Phoenician in Scottsdale, Ariz. April 15-17, 2013. This is the best conference for innovation.

Summit 2013, hosted by NewSchools Venture Fund by invite only, will be April 30 – May 1, 2013 in the Bay Area. This is the best conference for education funding and venture capital.

Virtual School Symposium, hosted by the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL), is held in October each year. This is the best conference for front-edge online and blended learning methods.

Other Highlights

FETC, a regional education technology conference, will be held January 28-31, 2013 in Orlando, Florida.

2 COMMENTS

This is an informative list. Why did you not include any of the annual conferences hosted by some of the LMS businesses such as Desire2Learn or Blackboard? Yes these conferences are heavily related to the LMS product, but if your team attended the BbWorld conference you would see that it goes way beyond Blackboard. You may also want to consider annual Educause conference. Thanks for the list!

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